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I want to tell you about my experience with Hand-In-Paw! My then 95 1/2 year-old Dad, a WWII veteran, spent his last weeks in the Safe Harbor unit at the Birmingham VA hospital in March of this year. He was a precious man, with a good heart and a great love for dogs. He always had a dog for as long as I remember until the past nine years when he went to live in an assisted living facility. A few days before he passed, I came met another Veteran and his yellow lab, Ryder, a Therapy Team with Hand-In-Paw, that was visiting the unit in hopes of cheering up the patients, if only for a little while. I asked him to visit my Dad as he had been in very low spirits and pain. He shortly brought Ryder to visit and my-oh-my how Dad IMMEDIATELY perked up! Dad was able to pet and love on Ryder and even give him treats and I will always remember Dad's smile. Of course, it was a "Kodak moment" and I look at that photo often. I want to thank Hand-In-Paw and Ryder from the bottom of my heart!!!!!!

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